Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whelchel hadn't taken to the air in the entire first quarter. Suddenly he discovered his own right arm and started picking the pass defense apart with the kind of short, hook-and-slant passes that a 5-4 defense is supposed to be vulnerable to. Only a fumble by Phil DeRose at the nine-yard line stopped what seemed like a sure UMass touchdown as the second quarter ended...
...substitution pattern"-the unfortunate tendency in cripples to make do with a stump rather than to rely on an artificial arm or leg. Under the care of skilled therapists, infants spend an average 72 days as in-patients in the Springfield hospital, learning to use simple beginner prostheses-a hook for a hand, a short, thick stilt for a leg. Because they are naturally so eager to walk and to handle objects, infants usually accept the prostheses as parts of their own bodies...
...Good for you. Yanks! Your swift reflexes over Cuba warned Khrushchev with appalling clarity that if he tweaked the "paper tiger's" tail it could, and would if necessary, hook him instantly with nuclear claws. The Gulf of Tonkin action and reaction should serve as a similar warning to the impetuous Mao dynasty. Let's hope so, anyway. If it doesn't, then we Aussies are right in there with...
...mugging outrageously beneath some improbable hat. Last year in Rome, when President Kennedy visited the North American College, Cushing was on hand to greet him, with a group of sobersided clerics looking on. Instead of offering his episcopal ring to be kissed, Cushing squared off, aimed a mock right hook at the President's solar plexus and bellowed: "Hi, Jack...
...high steel cylinders feeds high-voltage electricity into cables that cross under the English Channel to link the power networks of two nations. The same sort of tubes will soon be at work in New Zealand and Japan, and the U.S. Department of the Interior hopes to hook them to a pair of 750,000-volt lines more than 800 miles long that will carry surplus hydroelectric power from the Pacific Northwest to consumers in California and Arizona...